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Like Hemingway's Nick Adams, Irving began wandering in quest of experience-"to taste life," he said, "to search for the basic truths." First he went to Detroit to work in a machine shop and absorb the life of the working class. For a time he was a Fuller Brush man in Syracuse. Then he went to Europe, where he finished On a Darkling Plain, a novel in which three college buddies encounter the disillusionments of the postwar world. On the dust jacket, the publisher offered an "unqualified guarantee of reader satisfaction" or the book could be exchanged...
...heads the management firm of Italconsult in Rome; Kogoro Uemura, president of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations; and Britain's Alexander King, director general for scientific affairs of the Office for Economic Cooperation and Development. It is as if David Rockefeller, Henry Ford and Buckminster Fuller suddenly came out against commerce and technology...
...recruited his former managing editor, general editor, art editor and advertising manager. They now work with Cousins in a modest mid-Manhattan office with a noncommittal sign on the door that reads N.C. AND COLLEAGUES. He has also signed up former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant and Architect Buckminster Fuller as members of his editorial board...
...series of caprices, sonatas, quartets, variations and five full-scale violin concertos. The pieces hardly challenged Beethoven's, but they were competently constructed crowd pleasers that bristled with the kind of technical bravura in which Paganini gloried-vertiginous runs and arpeggios, contrapuntal double and even triple stops, a fuller range than any violinist had ever attempted of harmonic overtones (the higher-pitched vibrations of given notes, produced by depressing the strings only slightly...
Under Casey's guidance, the SEC has moved briskly to enforce negotiated brokerage-commission rates on stock trades of more than $500,000, order stricter capital requirements for securities firms, tighten up corporate bookkeeping and require all companies whose stock is bought by the public to make fuller disclosures of financial information. Last week the SEC proposed new rules that would unequivocally prevent brokerage firms from using customers' cash and securities for their own purposes; the regulations would supersede New York Stock Exchange rules, which were not always obeyed. Next week Casey will conclude a month of hearings...